Principal Electrical Engineer, Data Centre Engineering

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. The AWS Data Center Design Engineering team is looking for a senior manager to join our highly collaborative leadership team, responsible for delivering data center related designs across AWS regions within North America. As the Sr. Data Center Infrastructure Engineering (DCIE) Manager, you will lead a team of multi-disciplinary engineers. You will be responsible for the delivery of projects, applying design quality controls, and providing technical guidance to team members. As a subject matter expert, you will be responsible for solving for large scale implementation and capacity issues and engaging with AWS engineering community and our internal stakeholders, including procurement, construction and real estate. This role is an opportunity to cooperate with many facets of the AWS organization, external engineering resources and public regulatory agencies.



Key job responsibilities
Leading DC Infrastructure Engineering in AMER. Develop strategic solutions which meet or exceed our quality requirements and fall within our budgetary and redundancy requirements. Conceives, initiates, and leads projects with widespread impact on infrastructure engineering, innovation, and implementation. Sets the standard for engineering, test, and best practices. Drives process improvements across the organization. Decompose complex problems into straightforward and actionable solutions. Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support our data centers. Work with internal teams to understand user requirements. Work with local agencies having jurisdiction and certification agencies to ensure compliance with federal, state and municipal requirements and building codes.

About the team
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Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline
- Experience with mission-critical facilities
- Experience managing engineering teams on international projects
- Proven ability to develop and deploy innovative, cost-effective design solutions without compromising quality, reliability, or maintainability
- Solid analytical and communication skills; experience building complex business cases and presenting technical decisions to senior leadership
- Deep understanding of DC bus topology (radial, ring, meshed architectures). Ability to architect scalable, modular HVDC distribution systems from source (rectifier/converter) through distribution backbone to point-of-load, with clear design philosophy around redundancy, availability, and serviceability
- Experience with or thorough working knowledge of Solid-State Transformer (SST) design and application, including medium-frequency transformer design, galvanic isolation strategies, and SST roles in flexible DC voltage conversion within a distribution hierarchy
- Firm understanding of DC fault current behavior, including rise rates (di/dt), prospective fault current levels, and challenges of interrupting DC fault current without a natural zero crossing

Preferred Qualifications

- 10+ years of experience directly related to data center or mission critical facility engineering.
- Professional Engineering License or Master Degree in Engineering
- Direct experience with high voltage distribution systems.
- Direct experience with chiller systems, cooling towers and factory testing protocols
- Managing experience with the construction, operation, or maintenance of data centers.
- Previous consultant and jurisdiction negotiation skills associated with construction and project execution.
- Experience with large scale technical operations or large-scale compute facilities.

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